The forecast for the cyclone season, measured from November 1 to April 30, is due to a neutral outlook for El Nino and La Nina weather events in the tropical Pacific Ocean.

Mr Webb says meteorologists are getting few clues to the season ahead under the neutral conditions, and says even global climate conditions and sea surface temperatures are providing little insight.

"Given that the El Nino - Southern Oscillation - isn't pointing us in any direction, we are just telling people to anticipate a typical summer and that normally means a rapid increase in the development of our cyclone activity through the back end of the year into the first three months of the year," he told 612 ABC Brisbane.

"That's the strongest pointer we have in terms of predicting the numbers of tropical cyclones and it's not giving us any help, because we're in between La Nina and El Nino at the moment.

"In La Nina years, we tend to see an increase in the number of cyclones about the Coral Sea.

"[In] El Nino we see a decrease and neutral is somewhere in between."

Warning to prepare for more cyclones

The typical Australian tropical cyclone season averages around 11 tropical cyclones, with four of them crossing the coast, with the first one usually crossing the coast in late December.